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You surely realize that no human being can be available 24/7 within 20 minutes. It's beyond slavery to expect that from any employee. You need at least 10 sysop/sysadmin to achieve anything close to that SLA, with a sustainable rota. Contrary to the parent posters who believe it can be done with THE right guy.
We manage it with 3 sysop/sysadmins. I think you vastly overestimate how many people you need to keep a 20 minute SLA.
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I find it rather insulting that you think it must be a shitty job.
Expectation of 24/7, 20 minute response to a callout is bullshit. If that’s not shitty, you’re a victim of some sort of employee Stockholm syndrome.
And keep in mind, 20 minute response doesn't mean you fix the problem in 20 minutes, it means you respond in 20 minutes to the callout.
I think you're victim of an easy-going startup culture.
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So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
The random dude is your employee and his/her mani job to get it to work and it’s first proirity. You will never be AWS/GCP/Azure first priority.
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Expectation of 24/7, 20 minute response to a callout is bullshit. If that’s not shitty, you’re a victim of some sort of employee Stockholm syndrome.
Not all 3 have to respond all the time. It's a rotating schedule for having the overnight phone and the weekend phone (during weekend nights the SLA is relaxed to 1 hour). And keep in mind, 20 minute response doesn't mean you fix the problem in 20 minutes, it means you respond in 20 minutes to the callout. I think you're victim of an easy-going startup culture.
I’ve been oncall for escalations for like 15 years. That’s miserable enough, IMO frontline guys need fixed schedules and rotation if the volume is high.
I definitely cast my perspective on this and apologize if I came on too strong,
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Not all 3 have to respond all the time. It's a rotating schedule for having the overnight phone and the weekend phone (during weekend nights the SLA is relaxed to 1 hour). And keep in mind, 20 minute response doesn't mean you fix the problem in 20 minutes, it means you respond in 20 minutes to the callout. I think you're victim of an easy-going startup culture.
I misread it. I’ve been oncall for escalations for like 15 years. That’s miserable enough, IMO frontline guys need fixed schedules and rotation if the volume is high. I definitely cast my perspective on this and apologize if I came on too strong,